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Assessment, mitigation measures and recommendations to minimise the potential impact of maritime traffic on marine cetacean populations on the west coast of India.
Authors:
Villazán Peñalosa, B.; Rodríguez García, J.; Ponte Mosquera, C., Granero Castro, J.
Congress, year: CONEIA XI, Cáceres 2022
Marine mammals play a key role in most marine ecosystems. However, they are globally threatened by different anthropogenic pressures. The main impacts include activities derived from maritime traffic, among which mortality caused by collisions with large medium- and high-speed vessels stands out.
The objective of the present work was to develop and suggest a series of recommendations to minimize the potential collision risk to cetacean populations potentially affected by four shipping traffic routes departing from major ports on the west coast of India.
